From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 8 18: 2:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E2237B422 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 18:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=025f3eed5c4fc085f0fb64df616aaf9d) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14xIN9-0000LH-00; Tue, 08 May 2001 19:02:35 -0600 Message-ID: <3AF8972B.BD18C1E7@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 19:02:35 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Crist Clark Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reverse or not References: <3AF6E858.77E9B72A@globalstar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Crist Clark wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > Sheldon Hearn scribed: > > > > > > That's not what I'm suggesting. People were talking about /etc/hosts vs > > > DNS. I'm saying that > > > > > > 1) DNS servers shouldn't answer questions about the loopback > > > network. > > > > > > 2) Hosts should have hostnames for the loopback network > > > hardwired into /etc/hosts. > > > > 3) /etc/host.conf should always have hosts listed before > > bind, to be sure that you get your local definitions > > *first*. > > I was thinking of applications like sendmail(8) that don't bother with > the local resolver and really like to go straight to DNS. Netscape. Grrrr. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message